German artist Christian Jankowski has been selected as Curator in Chief for Manifiesta 11, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2016. Jankowski will investigate authorship in the arts, its production, and its reflection in the Zurich professional field. This is the first time that ah artist takes this position in the history of Manifiesta, to work in an urban-context project. Jankowski (Göttingen, 1968) was selected by a Committee including Hedwig Fijen, Gijs van Tuyl, Mirjam Varadinis, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Barbara Basting, Heike Munder, Christoph Doswald, and Martin Heller. The new curator studied at the Fine Arts University in Hamburg Germany) and currently lives in Berlin. His artistic actions and multimedia works use film, video, and photography, but also painting, sculpture, and installation. Jankowski's work consists of performative interactions between himself and individuals who are not art professionals, or between contemporary art and what is known as the world outside art. Manifiesta, the European Contemporary Art Biennial, chose Zurich as the site for its 11th edition because the city afforded an opportunity for investigating an urban environment for the first time in its history. This means that the city's complex and shifting identity is to become the object of a detailed curatorial examination.